Granted, a lot of their stuff is probably more geared towards guitar but what do you all think of Chase Bliss as a company and the stuff they are cranking out?
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Chase Bliss
- Thread starter Calvin Marks
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rratajski
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- Jul 1, 2008
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You are hard pressed to find a more hardworking, but chill company or owner than Joel Korte and Chase Bliss.
Are their pedals highly regarded? They're extremely expensive and seem to have a ton of bells and whistles but I'm not sure how "useable" a lot of their sounds are...
old thread, but ill say that the chase bliss tremolo is everything I thought Joels pedals would be. just 10's across the board.
I like that their stuff encourages you to turn knobs, even while playing. They make interactive pedals that feel very tactile, at least in terms of the past offerings as I’m not familiar with the new stuff that has all the sliders.
"simple, straightforward" they definitely are not! But they certainly are wicked cool. I've had a MOOD for 2 or 3 years, and just got a Blooper a few weeks ago, and they are constantly rewarding, provocative, and inspiring...as well as sometimes befuddling and/or exasperating. I would not want to be the guy who has to give a 30-second elevator pitch describing what any single Chase Bliss pedal does.
^^^This. I can't imagine only operating either of my CBA pedals with feet exclusively.
No doubt, I enjoyed them while I had them (Warped Vinyl, Tonal Recall, Gen Loss collab, and Blooper), just found other pedals that did what I wanted for less, without functionality I'd never use. For my money, CB pedals are worth the cost if you do actually get into the dip switches. If you don't, they're not. Joel, however, is a top notch human being and I wish him and the company nothing but continued success.
Although after buying Dark World I liked it a lot, I sold it. These days I can't be just collecting more pedals. Each one has to fill a certain need for me. But I acknowledge that Dark World is strong.
Tonal Recall was the first CBA pedal I bought, several years ago. I wasn't into it at all and sold it quickly.
Blooper was an easy winner for me. It makes excellent audio and is a distinctly special and useful audio processor and instrument. I predict that I'll keep it for a long time.
My real news, however, is a tease. Yet it should be encouraging:
Today I bought one of the new CBA pedal models that will be officially announced soon. I am respecting the dealers' NDA, so I won't say anything in detail about the pedal.
What I will say is that this pedal is fantastic. It is very strong, makes excellent audio, and is not quite like anything else I happen to know of. Since it fills a current need, I will put it to work at once. I foresee keeping it for good.
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I've heard about this mystery pedal. It got leaked a few days ago, but Chase Bliss has been playing it up on the socials. New logo...new company...I'm pretty excited.
Now that Chase Bliss announced its new Habit pedal, I can report that, despite me only getting started with it so far, Habit is
1. a deep pedal
2. the only other pedal I happen to have played that can do the sort of "fractal arpeggios" that Count to 5 does. But Habit goes far, far beyond Count to 5 in this aspect. And its audio quality is altogether better. The term is overused, but really: for fractal-type textures, Habit is insane. I don't know if any demos illustrate this yet, so when I can I will post an example.
